Am Montag, 21. August 2006 17:45 schrieb Chip Salzenberg:
> Well, that's fair. Many of us are old enough to have used such limited
> hardware, but it's all surely been relegated to the trashheap by now. So:
> Would anyone be inconvenienced by exceeding 80 columns regularly; and, how?
80, or 100, or 132 are all some arbitrary limits. But the latter is already
inconvenient on a 12" powermac with reasonable font size [1]. Due to the
rather verbose VTABLE macros, 80 looks a bit too limited (given the
impressive amount of needed code changes we got recently (ambs++ BTW)).
My preference: soft limit 80 - keep lines shorter, if it's easy
hard limit ~100 - you SHALL not exceed it
leo
[1] "reasonable" for the old eyes of folks that actually have punched
hollerith cards, when they were younger, like e.g. yours sincerly
